TAPESTRY LANDSCAPE AUBUSSON ANTIQUE | PURCHASE SALE IN PARIS

Aubusson Tapestry: Tapestries are ornamental weavings made by hand by weavers on a loom. The

decoration is made at the same time as the support. These are painters who draw and paint the

models then scaled by the cardboard makers to be executed by the lissiers.

In France, since the XVIth century, many tapestry workshops had settled in Aubusson and Felletin in

the Limousin. They became royal manufacture in 1665 under Louis XIV. It was mainly used to weave wool

tint. The subjects could be naturalistic (the greens) or historical like the tapestries of Gramont of which

the themes were drawn from ancient mythology. Decorative borders embellished the works.

Luxury furniture, tapestries were part of the seigniorial way of life. Hanging on the walls, they were

decorative, warmed the walls in winter, and could be easily transported from one castle to another.

Nowadays, antique tapestries are unfortunately frequently discoloured due to the action of the

light on dyes, often of vegetable origin, whereas great importance was given to the colours

and the multiplicity of nuances. Only the indigo blue, obtained from the leaves of the indigo tree, is a dyeing

"with the cochineal red from an insect.

The 18th century, the golden age of Aubusson's greens

During the 18th century, the subject of greenery emerged as the sole object of weaving. As the Enlightenment progressed, the motif of the tree became more and more the object of tapestries, to the extent that real "tree portraits" with multicoloured flowers or fruit became the pretext for large woven paintings, sometimes created by artists such as Jean-Baptiste Oudry. The taste for turqueries and chinoiseries gives rise to lush palm tree weavings within the various exotic greens or other Chinese hangings inspired by the work of François Boucher.

Galerie Jabert presents you in its collection of old Aubusson tapestry, a variety of ancient greenery tapestry in different dimensions.

Apart from the old Aubusson tapestries presented by Galerie Jabert, we also propose you the Aubusson Tapestry, Felletin Tapestry, Bruxcelles Tapestry, Oudenaarde Tapestry, Lille Tapestry, Gobelin Tapestry, Flandres Tapestry,etc,,,,